diff --git a/third_party/color_emoji/add_glyphs.py b/third_party/color_emoji/add_glyphs.py
index bea880064..14e19682f 100644
--- a/third_party/color_emoji/add_glyphs.py
+++ b/third_party/color_emoji/add_glyphs.py
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ def codes_to_string(codes):
 		pieces = codes.split ("_")
 		string = "".join ([unichr (int (code, 16)) for code in pieces])
 	else:
+          try:
 		string = unichr (int (codes, 16))
+          except:
+            raise ValueError("uh-oh, no unichr for '%s'" % codes)
         return string
 
 
@@ -145,13 +148,13 @@ def add_lig_sequence(ligatures, seq, n):
                 rev_seq.reverse()
                 trseq = tuple(rev_seq)
                 if trseq in ligatures:
-                        print 'rev lig sequence %s, replace %s with %s' % (
-                            trseq, ligatures[trseq], n)
+                        # print 'rev lig sequence %s, replace %s with %s' % (
+                        #    trseq, ligatures[trseq], n)
                 ligatures[trseq] = n
 
 
 for (u, filename) in img_pairs:
-	print "Adding glyph for U+%s" % ",".join (["%04X" % ord (char) for char in u])
+	# print "Adding glyph for U+%s" % ",".join (["%04X" % ord (char) for char in u])
 	n = glyph_name (u)
         glyph_names.add(n)
 
@@ -185,13 +188,14 @@ for k, v in ligatures.iteritems():
 
 for base in sorted(keyed_ligatures):
         pairs = keyed_ligatures[base]
-        print 'base %s has %d sequences' % (base, len(pairs))
+        # print 'base %s has %d sequences' % (base, len(pairs))
+
         # Sort longest first, this ensures longer sequences with common prefixes
         # are handled before shorter ones.  It would be better to have multiple
         # lookups, most likely.
         pairs.sort(key = lambda pair: (len(pair[0]), pair[0]), reverse=True)
         for seq, name in pairs:
-                print seq, name
+                # print seq, name
                 add_ligature(font, seq, name)
 
 font.saveXML (out_file)
diff --git a/third_party/color_emoji/emoji_builder.py b/third_party/color_emoji/emoji_builder.py
index 0092b0751..fa9f4115c 100644
--- a/third_party/color_emoji/emoji_builder.py
+++ b/third_party/color_emoji/emoji_builder.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class CBDT:
 		write_func = self.image_write_func (image_format)
 		for glyph in glyphs:
 			img_file = glyph_filenames[glyph]
-                        print 'writing data for glyph %s' % path.basename(img_file)
+                        # print 'writing data for glyph %s' % path.basename(img_file)
 			offset = self.tell ()
 			write_func (PNG (img_file))
 			self.glyph_maps.append (GlyphMap (glyph, offset, image_format))
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class CBDT:
                 if y_bearing == 128:
                   y_bearing = 127
 		advance = width
-                print "small glyph metrics h: %d w: %d" % (height, width)
+                # print "small glyph metrics h: %d w: %d" % (height, width)
 		# smallGlyphMetrics
 		# Type	Name
 		# BYTE	height
@@ -488,7 +488,8 @@ By default they are dropped.
 			glyph_imgs[glyph_id] = img_file
 			if "verbose" in options:
 				uchars_name = ",".join (["%04X" % ord (char) for char in uchars])
-				print "Matched U+%s: id=%d name=%s image=%s" % (uchars_name, glyph_id, glyph_name, img_file)
+				# print "Matched U+%s: id=%d name=%s image=%s" % (
+                                #    uchars_name, glyph_id, glyph_name, img_file)
 
 			advance += glyph_metrics[glyph_name][0]
 			w, h = PNG (img_file).get_size ()